"Love Finds You in Frost, Minnesota" by Judy Baer

About this book:

  “When Jack returns home to Minnesota, he meets the town’s newcomer. She’s bubbly, beautiful . . . and his latest adversary.

   Considering that her name is Merry Noel Blake and she was born on Christmas Eve, it’s not surprising that Frost, Minnesota’s newest resident is crazy about the holiday. She has single-handedly convinced the entire town to help her turn Frost into a Christmas destination; there’s a life-sized nativity, the lutefisk dinner at church, and Merry’s own holiday boutique.

   Jack Frost might be rich and handsome, but the weather seems to chill by a few more degrees when he walks into town. For Jake has come back to reclaim his family’s land—despite the fact that it is home to many of Frost’s residents. Worse, he has deep, personal reasons for spurning holiday festivities and is determined to cut the town’s Christmas spectacle down to size. But Merry believes that below Jack’s frosty exterior is a warm heart—and that she is the one to thaw it.”

Series: Part of the “Love Finds You” series, but not connected to any other book.

Spiritual Content- All about & set during Christmas; Scriptures are read, remembered, & quoted; Bible reading; Prayers & Blessings over food; Church going; Talks about God & celebrating Jesus’ birthday; ‘H’s are capitalized when referring to God; Merry serves cake every day in the month of December and when someone asks why, she shares about Christ with them; Jack only likes the church elements of Christmas; Mentions of God, Jesus, Jesus’ birth, & the Reason for the season; Mentions of prayers, praying, & blessings over food; Mentions of forgiveness & peace; Mentions of nativity sets, a live nativity, churches, church going, services, events, & a pastor; Mentions of faiths & a future spouse having to be a Christian (Merry doesn’t date men who didn’t have faith, she did in college and regretted the pain it caused ever since); Mentions of blessings & miracles; A few mentions of a Christmas hymn & carols; A mention of a God-sent person;

             *Note: Mentions of Santa & elves; A couple mentions of the ghosts/bad spirit in “A Christmas Carol” (to which a friend tells Merry that there’s no ghosts).

 

 

Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘dumb’ and four ‘stupid’s; Mentions of a tragic accident & death of a loved one (& recalling it through a nightmare, up to semi-detailed); Mentions of rumors & gossip; A few mentions of nightmares; A couple mentions of a car accident & deaths (Merry’s parents); A couple mentions of an accident & death in the military; A couple mentions of a legend of Jack Frost killing his victims by burying them in the snow; A couple mentions of lies; A couple mentions of hunting; A mention of man who likes to fight; A mention of eavesdropping;

             *Note: Mentions of different Christmas songs, movies, & other animated classics; A couple mentions of car brands; A mention of Martha Stewart.

 

 

Sexual Content- A fingers-to-lips touch, a forehead kiss, a nose kiss, a cheek kiss, a not-detailed kiss, a barely-above-not-detailed, & a semi-detailed kiss; Touches, Embraces, Nearness, Flutters & Smelling (including pulling a girl into his lap, barely-above-not-detailed); Blushes; Noticing (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of dates, dating, boyfriends/girlfriends, couples, feelings, & flirtatious smiles; Mentions of jealousy; A couple mentions of kisses; A couple mentions of blushes; A mention of testosterone; A mention of young twin boys thinking that they could date the same girl and if one of them liked her, they could claim her (he says that weren’t very sophisticated at that age, so they didn’t even consider what the poor girls might think); Love, falling in love, attraction, & the emotions;

             *Note: A mention of Joseph in the Bible who had obediently taken a pregnant teenaged wife.

 

-Merry Noel Blake, age 28

-Jonathan “Jack” Frost, age 35 (?)

                                P.O.V. switches between them

                                                        307 pages

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My personal Rating-

I’ve had this book sitting on my (physical) TBR shelf for three years and I’ve finally read it. What a crime it was to wait this long.

This was everything I enjoy in a Christmas novel—including the slightly cheesiness and convenient plot points that I’ll only overlook if it’s set at Christmas time.

I wish the ending would have been a touch clearer (that is, making a bit more sense to me) and I would have probably gave it five stars, but still, it was such a cute, cute, cute read and made me smile so much while reading it. I’m not sure what else to say…it was so enjoyable and I loved that it wasn’t completely fluff and had great faith content discussed and shown. This book definitely going in my list of my favorite Christmas books! :)

 

 

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*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.